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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 7:58 pm
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XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX❝Ling Sun❞
➳ What's their alias?
➳ How old are they?
➳ Are they male or female?
➳ What is their place in the world?
ISIA Field Agent and scene cleaner
➳ What's their preference?
➳ What are they capable of?
Ling Sun—as she is registered—is a functional psychopath with an imposing ability to endure stress and discomfort. While empathy doesn't come naturally to her, she may feign emotions. Her method of adaptive learning allows her to acquire a broad array of skills centered on immersion and repetition. In the past, she's endured a degree of experimentation that gives her an uncanny resistance to the affects of an unknown array of drugs and diseases. Her fighting style is very direct, her education focused on close quarters, an amalgam of Sambo, Hapkido, and Tai Chi with the purpose of lethal and nonetheless combat, supplemented by her lightweight body and impressive flexibility. When faced with difficult or stressful sitations, such as the act of merely "pulling the trigger" she manages with little to no fear or hesitation, though that may also serve as a weakness.
➳ What are their weaknesses?
most of her strengths come from sociopathy or bad life experience which she embraces for the most part. Whether or not this can be called "healthy" debatable but it is well documented that she doesn't seem to be phased by seeing human death in the slightest or causing it for that matter, a close eye must be kept on her drive and behavior patterns at all times. Many of her strengths are also weaknesses in the wrong situation. It can also bring her decisions under some scrutiny at times within her own organization. While capable of fighting she is light and not particularly strong in the traditional sense. A very technical fighter by any standard.
She's got quite the medical record as well.. an insomniac who doesn't experience fear or other emotions in a very normal, predictable way. She'd experimented with drugs before, including some old military grade varieties.
Leadership is not one of her strong-suits though when assigned to support someone or something specific she seems to take it extremely seriously.
➳ How do they act?
She likes to be liked so she may pretend but she doesn't really care about people. She lies alot and enjoys attention and using people to get things out of them, usually nothing important or particularly bothersome. She is constantly taking behaviors from people around her rather than simply forming her own set of personality traits though she does have some personality patterns based off whatever tends to make her happiest unlike most who just form a personality naturally or for other more human-ish reasons.
➳ What's their backstory?
Born in Kim Jong Il's North Korea in 1990 she was a child soldier of a home grown rebel group funded by american's for proxy warfare. She'd end up escaping under a false identity at a young age after heavy abuse, early drug use, and combat training. But she would still be under the control of her abuser.
She'd spend her teens in south korea where she'd study and commit serial killings for money and a chance to escape to a better life but she would find her efforts fruitless until she got caught up with an american agent working for the Triad.
By age 20 she was living in China but would be driven to america due to violent acts against important gangsters who didn't live up to their own code and others who blackballed her out of town for various reasons after this.
She'd begin her life of crime in america but while seeking to get out of the business she'd be drawn into a new one by the CIA after they'd lured her out of china to begin with. She'd be placed under special watch and sent to locations with little training, or rather as live training, to see how she adapted and adapted she did. Their methods were inhumanely harsh but they were a secretive black op branch and she was not a normal OR particularly humane person herself. Though she lacked in morality these people did not function solely off such things, they gave her purpose and direction designed for people like her specifically. She was a perfect fit for the most part besides some health extra psychological issues and such. Nothing they'd never handled before.
She'd be stationed on the korean peninsula even managing to reenter North Korea after killing and taking on the identity of someone she'd been watching for a week just long enough to track down 3 people, kill them, and escape having set back several enemy operations severely and exposing plots to infiltrate South Korea. Her talents and habits earned her a chance to join ISIA as a member of a new team they were putting together for cleaning up after certain jobs and helping to handle any fallout and leaks. She's rarely been inactive since and quickly became a more known and solid member. Though some still question her mental state a bit she hadn't proven to be a problem at all as far as anyone could tell.
➳ Anything else we need to know?
She does not feel the same way normal people do but she CAN attempt to substitute such empathetic traits with other things to the point someone who didnt know her would very probably be fooled.
Ling Sun is just her last fake name she used before recruitment. She has never actually had a single, real name. Her first name she was commonly called by was "#22" or "seumul dul". This is not a terribly strange name in some asian cultures but one might expect a story behind such an unusual and old fashioned style of funny looking name. Perhaps something like a birthday or something. Not terrible strange but not normal either. Ling sun is just a generic name like Ashley Smith.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:40 am
While it's an interesting background and character, I feel her abilities are too broad, and I don't believe she would pass the background check. It is a very long and choosy process merely to be considered for recruitment, and among things they consider is whether or not there are explanations for where they've been. “With great power comes great responsibility.”
— Ben Parker I would like her abilities to be more balanced, perhaps more specialized. If she is to have a wide variety of skills, then she wouldn't be as skilled in each, since time and practice went to balance her skills. I feel as if the apparent resistance to drugs and the like is unnecessary, because she's thus far described overwhelmingly skilled, so toning her down is key.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:21 am
Santiago Campos While it's an interesting background and character, I feel her abilities are too broad, and I don't believe she would pass the background check. It is a very long and choosy process merely to be considered for recruitment, and among things they consider is whether or not there are explanations for where they've been. “With great power comes great responsibility.”
— Ben Parker I would like her abilities to be more balanced, perhaps more specialized. If she is to have a wide variety of skills, then she wouldn't be as skilled in each, since time and practice went to balance her skills. I feel as if the apparent resistance to drugs and the like is unnecessary, because she's thus far described overwhelmingly skilled, so toning her down is key. If you look closely Her current skills aren't actually that uncommon, aside from her mental disorder. She is a great liar. The fact she comes from north korea and has no loyalty towards the nation is no secret. Its a known fact that weirdos like this tend to end up in politics or agencies in any nations. She would have gone on a 6 year trial run before becoming a junior agent which she currently is. Also here's a video on sociopathy, it is the source of most of her skills including some things like martial arts. Webpage Titlesociopathy can be a strength or a pretty huge burden at times I will add that they eventually learned of more of her murders and that she's kept under watch. Her skillset is not actually a "skillset" so to speak, it is just her nature. As is, her current skillset is that she is able to pull the trigger when told and she is very good at cleaning up after people. She isn't skilled with rocket launchers and sniper rifles. She isn't detective but she has seen some of the otherside of detective work.. as the killer She's strong under pressure but only because she isnt much effected by it until she herself is effected. This is both a strength and a weakness edit also note that she did leave a trail, which is part of how she got caught in the first place, her whereabouts were not completely untraceable, just not traceable fast enough to prevent some of her crimes which were arguably necessary, which is probably a lie but she wouldnt have hesitated back then. unlike some who simply are good at imitating others she does not do it the same way. Some more skilled actors study and all that from good sources. She sees you and begins to copy your movements like a creature disguised as a human being.. a predator. In some cases this will be the more effective means of learning, in others it will not. In a party setting where someone needs to distract and charm many people from a culture never before experienced she will walk in and naturally work her magic In an interrogation something will seem very off about her the longer she is held. Or if she is in an extended and invasive conversation. She will tell excellent lies but something about she herself may set off some alarms in people who look for such types
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 7:25 pm
I don't need a video on the applications of sociopathy, no offense, and I hadn't even addressed that in my response. I mentioned two things in particular: her broad skill set and that her past doesn't make her qualified to join. "good at martial arts"Which martial arts? After all, each has its specialties. Where would she have picked this up? I don't suppose she encountered to many martial arts instructors, though I would imagine she was taught some form of self defense, though there's not too much room for it. Also, what would be the equivalent to "good"? "recovers easily from torture"Do you mean that has very good endurance? "great with guns"You've thus far mentioned rocket launchers and marksman rifles as a shortcoming, but what is she proficient with? Where did she acquire this expertise? I'm still in opposition to "drug and disease" resistant. I'm not entirely sure what you're going for with "junior officer" in mention; agents aren't necessarily ranked, though their progress in missions/experience is compared when certain agents are selected to lead operations. Her accomplishments are not enough; the ISIA seek out people with clean and very existent records, with exceptions to a few former thieves and hackers who have only committed smaller offenses. That isn't to say your character cannot be conflicted, but there's a point where the ISIA simply cannot accept it.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:22 pm
Santiago Campos I don't need a video on the applications of sociopathy, no offense, and I hadn't even addressed that in my response. I mentioned two things in particular: her broad skill set and that her past doesn't make her qualified to join. Quote: "good at martial arts"Which martial arts? After all, each has its specialties. Where would she have picked this up? I don't suppose she encountered to many martial arts instructors, though I would imagine she was taught some form of self defense, though there's not too much room for it. Also, what would be the equivalent to "good"? oh, in that case i'm going to say she practices a mix of 3 types. 1. growing up she was part of north korean culture, by default she will have some training designed to defend herself, the land, and to kill people. She was also being trained as a child soldier for a horribly failed rebellion. She would have some experience with outdated rifles and pistols. Maybe a few explosives 2. in south korea she'd get practice killing unarmed people and moving bodies. she'd probably also learn a thing or two about makeshift weaponry here. 3. she got into the chinese crime scene to get to america. She would have easily picked up more techniques out of necessity, primarily dealing with self defense in a close quarter setting as well as learning to use smaller weapons in a more practical way. Her early experiences with martial arts and guns would help here but this would probably have a big impact on her rusty skills especially since she's more grown up now. 4. after coming to america she would find herself caught and hired then activated back in asia as an asset. Very probably she would be given more martial arts training. She'd be reactivated repeatedly and as someone with sociopathy the tendency to practice something like martial arts would be a necessity Very probably her early experience would resemble a Russian or Korean martial art. So maybe Sambo or Hapkido or something. Next she'd be learning some random kung fu variant on top of the style she'd already learned. Both Sambo and Hapkido are heavily grappling styles designed to break the joints and tear muscles so I think probably she'd learn some sort of more common Tai Chi variant. Her martial art thus far would be one that isn't about heavy strikes as much as it is about crippling and probably attempting to kill the target especially since she was hanging out with criminals at this point. Next she'd receive some formal training from an agency and then more from them after that. Regulation stuff. Her martial art should be a fairly simple and not very showy one that attacks the joints and is probably meant to be used while wielding a smaller weapon or against someone with a smaller, more realistic weapon. Quote: "recovers easily from torture"Do you mean that has very good endurance? no, mental. She's a sociopath. Once the danger is gone she just really doesnt give a **** what she went through. Maybe she's lying to herself and saying she's over it. maybe she's just that hardass. She doesnt know and doesn't care. You aren't going to break her, you can't really break the spirit of a broken person.. not in this way anyways. Quote: "great with guns"You've thus far mentioned rocket launchers and marksman rifles as a shortcoming, but what is she proficient with? Where did she acquire this expertise? child soldier serial killer organized crime formal agency training "I'm still in opposition to "drug and disease" resistant." When you go on certain jobs they shoot you up with antibodies. On top of this she did drugs and was being prepared for entering north korea. She would be subjected to many horrors. People who do these sorts of jobs and get tossed into **** holes for Uncle Sam get shot up with alot of fun things. It doesn't mean she's immune but it does mean that if she ends up hiding out in india she probably isnt going to get sick just by being there like some typical traveller nor will she need to stop by some hospital for an immunity shot. She had no rights, she was just doing as told and taking whatever needle her new employers gave her. Quote: I'm not entirely sure what you're going for with "junior officer" in mention; agents aren't necessarily ranked, though their progress in missions/experience is compared when certain agents are selected to lead operations. She's a junior, even if unofficial. Fresh meat. She will be starting with her graduation. That's why her biggest accomplishment is maybe subverting some gangs and killing some semi-random people. Though technically her biggest accomplishment is infiltrating north korea and escaping from it twice. Quote: Her accomplishments are not enough; the ISIA seek out people with clean and very existent records, with exceptions to a few former thieves and hackers who have only committed smaller offenses. That isn't to say your character cannot be conflicted, but there's a point where the ISIA simply cannot accept it. you should mention this somewhere. i really have no idea what sort of organization they are except that they are looking for talent. I'll start over and make something "cleaner" then.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:51 pm
You literally just defined the word "endurance". I feel as if simply saying she has a lot of endurance would be more appropriate and more versatile than simply stating she recovers easily from torture. As long as you incorporate those details on her skills in the profile, then it's fine. I have been meaning to include more details regarding organization, because the information page is in need of updating. I have it mentioned in the draft due to be posted at a later date, though if police won't accept people with criminal records, it can't be too unreasonable that a secretive agency would expect similar if not the same. I suppose character must simply be proven, though your recent update on her backstory is an improvement to her odds of joining.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:15 pm
Santiago Campos You literally just defined the word "endurance". I feel as if simply saying she has a lot of endurance would be more appropriate and more versatile than simply stating she recovers easily from torture. As long as you incorporate those details on her skills in the profile, then it's fine. I have been meaning to include more details regarding organization, because the information page is in need of updating. I have it mentioned in the draft due to be posted at a later date, though if police won't accept people with criminal records, it can't be too unreasonable that a secretive agency would expect similar if not the same. I suppose character must simply be proven, though your recent update on her backstory is an improvement to her odds of joining. secret agencies both real and fictional have been known to seek out people with sketchy but useful backgrounds though usually in fictional works these types tend to be kept under the watch of a professional trainer and retainer who specializes in these types of people whereas normal agents would take a different path. People like James Bond, who was a pretty messed up person if you think about it, were actually in the category that my character is in. "James Bond, you will go to this place, you will find this person, and you will make what they are doing stop by sunrise. Yes.. we have been trying to accomplish this for 10 years. No, you will not get backup." whereas the opposite would be more like alias or other agent shows where the teams work more closely, more deeply under cover, etcetc. My girl will be that person you probably want going in to fix something that broke. But ok I'll update it instead. Oh, btw I think you should add another very important section. Mission type specialty. You can have all the skills and talents in the world but what really counts is experience and specialization. Fringe's will be execution, organized crime subversion (a form of espionage), and trace erasing (the cleanup girl who makes sure nobody finds out about other assets)
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:14 am
I'm not saying it isn't impossible, I'm just saying that it couldn't be too farfetched that they would seek out people with cleaner backgrounds than most. They do prioritize that sort of thing. It won't be necessary to include specialties; that's what the abilities are for. If there are particular things they're tasked with, it's based on their past or maybe results during training. When the point comes when they're actually sent on missions, what has been stated in their profiles will be reviewed for placement. In some occassions, it may be better to put simple skills, just so there is a broad spectrum of missioms they could be selected for. Evidently, you should mention she excels in those sorts of things and she'll be considered for the like. Inform me when you've finished updating you're profile, and I'll check it.
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